Product description

Bays explores how and why to apply the Zen art of mindfulness to transform our 'issues' with food. Whether we are overweight or suffer from an eating disorder, learning to eat mindfully can liberate us from the suffering we experience with food. Recent research, medical information, and exercises are featured on the CD.

Author information

Jan Chozen Bays, MD, is a Zen master in the White Plum lineage of the late master Taizan Maezumi Roshi. She serves as a priest and teacher at the Jizo Mountain-Great Vow Zen Monastery in Clatskanie, Oregon. She is also a pediatrician who specializes in the evaluation of children for abuse and neglect.

Review quote

"Jan Chozen Bays should be recruited by the slow food movement. My favorite mindfulness book from the past year."--Barry Boyce in "Shambhala Sun " "If you give yourself over wholeheartedly to the practices described here, you will be thanking yourself and Dr. Bays for recovering your life and for enjoying the blessings of food in ways that feel liberated and delightful."--from the foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn